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If you've thought about sponsoring someone and you haven't or you've thought about walking and just haven't gotten around to registering...there's still time! Go to www.aidswalk.net/newyork and register to walk. There are many other people participating and many teams out there. I'm the team leader for NY Nightlife Cares: Walk to Boogie. Our team of 25 has raised over $6000 and there's still time! If you'd like to join this team, select team number 7074. If you'd like to donate to support our efforts or myself and my pup Morgan go to: https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=41823&supId=595109 OR from www.aidswalk.net click sponsor a participant and type Ooana Trien into the name fields or team number 7074 to make a general team donation. See you at the walk!!!! -Ooana CLICK HERE TO SPONSOR OR JOIN NY NIGHTLIFE CARES WALK TO BOOGIE TEAM....or to just see a damn cute picture of a dog.

Hey there, all - For this year's AIDS Walk on May 16th, we've put together a team called NY Nightlife Cares: Walk to Boogie. This team was created because, as members of the Nightlife community, we walk to honor those who despite their struggle, boogie alongside us. And we remember those we miss who always had the boogie in em'. As a team we've already raised over $1300.00. If you'd like to make a general donation or, if you'd like to join the team and walk with us, copy and paste this link into your browser: https://www.kintera.org/faf/search/searchTeamPart.asp?ievent=41823&lis=0&kntae41823=AF534EE3D8C34C9881BB3762EECC4550&supId=0&team=405345&cj=Y Or.... Go to http://www.aidswalk.net/newyork/ and click the register link on the left column and choose the join a team option and select the NY Nightlife Cares team. The team number is 7074. Please feel free to repost this anywhere you feel is appropriate. Thanks and hope to see you at the walk! All the best, Oo CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE NEW YORK AIDS WALK TEAM; NY NIGHTLIFE CARES: WALK TO BOOGIE

Just a quick request to please support Morgan, my pup, and me in this year's AIDS Walk. I've walked every year for the last 10+ and each year the overwhelming support from the nightlife community has been amazing. Every little bit helps! Its easy to donate by clicking the link below and using a credit card to make your secure and tax deductable donation. If you'd prefer to donate by check or cash, contact me and I'll be happy to help you. Also, this year I've created a team; New York Nightlife Cares: Walk to Boogie. This team is to show the support from our community for the continuing efforts toward a cure, to provide support and services to those living with AIDS and HIV and research. Also, its to honor and remember those who were part of our community's history and legacy who were lost. This is the first year I've made a team and I hope that it is the first year of many and that we have a great start! If you're interested in walking, please register. If interested in joining our team...we'd love to have ya! THANKS! CLICK HERE TO SPONSOR

I just spoke to an individual who is close to Junior. Junior is fine. He did NOT suffer from a heart attack or any drug related incident. It was a false alarm, but it was decided better safe then sorry. He is resting comfortably and will be just fine. He sends his gratitude to everyone for their well wishes. -Oo

Latest mix is just a few months old. -Oo

There was a time where there were mutliple mega-clubs in the city and they all survived/did well. They just each cattered to a very particular market and focused on various aspects of production to create a particular party. The market is there...especially clubbers in their late 20s who want a more mature atmosphere. If each venue markets itself right...NYC will be in for a HUGE treat and some terrific options. -Oo

I'm so delighted that so many people have supported this cause and have helped me reach my goal of $1000. This is in honor and in memory of all those who I remember who died from this disease and for those who are still fighting. THANK YOU to all of you supported me, those who are walking and those who supported others who are walking. More help is always needed and more donations are OF COURSE welcome ... but I just needed to say.... thank you. -Oo to sponser: https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=2302&lis=1&supId=595109 for general information/registration/joining a team/sponsering another participant: http://www.aidswalk.net/newyork/

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:::: This is a really worthy/important event...want to keep it alive -Oo

Keepin' this up cause its a damn good cause. -Oo

Hey there guys. I'm doing the AIDS walk NY this May 19th and I wanted to pass on the information to everyone. This cause is incredibly important to everyone, whether or not you've ever known someone who's lived with or died from AIDS or HIV. I'm posting to request that those of you who can manage, sponsor me byClicking Here or sponsor someone else you know of who is walking. If you can't sponsor (or even if you can), please consider walking yourself or simply passing the word around to others about this event. While funds are incredibly valuable, so is seeing the huge human turn out of support for AIDS & HIV research/edjucation/support systems etc. This is one way we can show the world that there are battles that still need to be fought and MUST one day be won and honor those we've lost or those amazing individuals living with HIV or AIDS. I walk in memory of my friends that I've lost and in honor of those who are living with HIV and AIDS and to stand beside those who are actively working to keep this cause vital in their own ways. Here is some information for you all about the event and some statistics about AIDS/HIV. Source for the statistics is Thewww.gmhc.org Here's the basic info: AIDS Walk New York is a 10 kilometer fundraising walkathon now in its 17th Year. Did You Know? AIDS Walk New York is the world's largest AIDS fundraising event. In 2001, nearly 40,000 people, a group as diverse as the city itself, participated in the AIDS Walk, collecting more than $4 million. AIDS Walk New York stands out as a model of community action and cost-efficient fundraising. The priority has always been to have the money raised go directly to vital services to help people living with HIV or AIDS. AIDS Walk New York benefits GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis), the nation's oldest and most comprehensive AIDS Service organization. The organization's staff of 169 and 6,600 dedicated volunteers provide services to more than 11,000 men, women, and children living with HIV and AIDS and their families. A portion of the net proceeds from the AIDS Walk also goes to dozens of other AIDS organizations within the tri-state area to support programs and services provided by GMHC and other AIDS service organizations across the tri-state region for men, women, and children affected by HIV and AIDS. Statistics National (Sources: CDC "HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report" Vol. 11, No. 2; National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 48 No. 11, July 24, 2000) Reported total AIDS cases in the U.S. through 1999: 733,374 By gender Male (82%) Female (18%) By race/ethnicity Children younger than 13 (1%) Whites (43%) Blacks (37%) Latino/a (18%) Asian/Pacific Islander (<1%) By method of exposure Men who have sex with men (47%) Injection drug users (25%) Heterosexual exposure (10%) Blood or blood product infection (2%) Reported total AIDS deaths in the U.S. through 1999: 430,441 Reported number of Americans living with HIV/AIDS through 1999: 412,471 Estimated number of Americans living with HIV infection and with AIDS through 1999 (1999 CDC estimate): 650,000 to 900,000 AIDS is the fifth leading cause of death among Americans aged 25 – 44, and the ninth leading cause of death among Americans aged 15 – 24 Blacks now outnumber whites in new AIDS diagnoses, deaths, and number of persons living with AIDS The proportion of women living with AIDS in America increased has increased steadily to 23% at the end of 1999. New York State (Source: New York State Department of Health HIV/AIDS Quarterly Update, data as of March 31, 2000) Reported total AIDS cases in New York State through March 31, 2000: 140,648 Reported total AIDS deaths in New York State through March 31, 2000: 84,694 Number of presumed alive New Yorkers (13 and older) with HIV infection and with AIDS through March 31, 2000: 55,176 By gender Male (74.2%) Female (25.8%) By race/ethnicity Whites (23.4%) Blacks (43.1%) Latino/a (32.4%) Asian/Pacific Islander (<1%) Native American (<1%) Other (<1%) By method of exposure Men who have sex with men (24.7%) Injection drug users (39.3%) Heterosexual exposure (12.1%) Unknown (21.2%) All other categories (2.7%) AIDS is the fifth leading cause of death among Americans aged 25 – 44, and the ninth leading cause of death among Americans aged 15 – 24 Blacks now outnumber whites in new AIDS diagnoses, deaths, and number of persons living with AIDS The proportion of women living with AIDS in America increased has increased steadily to 23% at the end of 1999. New York City (Source: New York City Department of Health Office of AIDS Surveillance, Estimates of Persons Living with AIDS in NYC, 1999 Edition, Issued March 2000) Reported total AIDS cases in New York City through 1999: 116,698 Reported total AIDS deaths in New York City through 1999: 71,648 Reported number of New York City residents living with HIV/AIDS through 1999: 43,150 By gender Male (74.2%) Female (25.8%) By race/ethnicity Whites (23%) Blacks (42%) Latino/a (34%) Asian/Pacific Islander (1%) Native American (<1%) Unknown (<1%) By method of exposure Men who have sex with men (38%) Injection drug users (40%) Heterosexual exposure (11%) Unknown (11%) All other categories (<1%)

If you think this is an appropriate topic, I'd be happy to post it in your forum as well for you to sticky it. Feel free to PM or email me and let me know at ooana@nyc.rr.com -Oo PS thanks for the help

:::: for a good cause. -Oo

Awesome! I'll be working on that it looks like with the G&L Center downtown Heh...I'm a dedicated straight gal -Oo

Edited the link Should work now...thanks! -Oo

Hey there guys. I'm doing the AIDS walk NY this May and I wanted to pass on the information to everyone. I'm letting everyone know in case they'd like to Register to walk or...make a donation to sponser me walking. ANY help would be most appreciated: Click here: http://www.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=2302&lis=0 for the website. Here you can either register or click sponser a participant. If you do the later enter the name: Ooana Trien if you'd like to sponser me. Thank you! -Oo Here's the basic info: AIDS Walk New York is a 10 kilometer fundraising walkathon now in its 17th Year. Did You Know? AIDS Walk New York is the world's largest AIDS fundraising event. In 2001, nearly 40,000 people, a group as diverse as the city itself, participated in the AIDS Walk, collecting more than $4 million. AIDS Walk New York stands out as a model of community action and cost-efficient fundraising. The priority has always been to have the money raised go directly to vital services to help people living with HIV or AIDS. AIDS Walk New York benefits GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis), the nation's oldest and most comprehensive AIDS Service organization. The organization's staff of 169 and 6,600 dedicated volunteers provide services to more than 11,000 men, women, and children living with HIV and AIDS and their families. A portion of the net proceeds from the AIDS Walk also goes to dozens of other AIDS organizations within the tri-state area to support programs and services provided by GMHC and other AIDS service organizations across the tri-state region for men, women, and children affected by HIV and AIDS. Join us on Sunday May 19, 2002 for our community's biggest response to the emergency of HIV/AIDS.

Wow...seems like a different lifetime. One of the handful of S&D nights I went to and I remember how touched I was but what ya did, Myrlin. Thanks for the reminder of a bygone one might say..gentler era. Glad I popped my nose in here and caught this. -Oo

Not sure where the rumor started that Martha bought the space but she didn't. The space is sitting there gathering dust but it is not sold. There are rustles in the offices now and again....the book was made somewhere doncha know -Oo

9:30 PM on January 1st he stopped. My body huuuuuuurts. -Oo

Ya can always come and say hi to me finally! -Oo

Guys, this is on page 6. The gossip page. That's bad enough in and of itself. But...the fact that this "article" is written with statements written to "read true" with zero evidence backing them is downright dispicable. I guess the Post didn't learn with its lack of basic journalistic integrity (fact checking...umm..hello?) with its articles on Twilo. What's even worse here is that they are targetting a DJ and the culture that attends these events an implying ANYTHING but the truth. There is no MORE drug use at this party than at any regular "straight" event and the seperate entrance was in NO way an attempt to provide a route for easy smuggling in of illegal substances. The accusations are ludicrous, unsupported and no better than an Enquirer article. The Post is NO MORE than a tabloid hidden under the mask of a true journal of news and information. And they do not seem to have any interest in journalistic integrity or the damage their print can cause on the masses or various institutions. Had Osama not still been clearer declaired by their marketing team as the best cover story...I'd bet we'd see another "Club of blood and debauchery" on the cover as we did with Twilo. I myself plan on writing a letter to the post as well as going in and trying to speak personally to the writer of this article through a personal contact. Allowing the press to bend and mould things to their personal/financial will with little to know interest in either 1) integrity of their words/findings or 2) impact on their readers is beyond negligent....its downright HARMFUL. I'm tempted to ask the writers of page 6 who make their living fiending off the gossip monsters who've nothing better to do than find interest in whether or not Brad Pitt's dick is cut..."have you no decency?" But I stress again...this is on the GOSSIP page. There is rarely any truth at all in gossip. I'm very disgusted to see the post back at their old tactics again. Would also like to meet the writers who so enjoy attacking the clubs and have them sit across from a person who was VERY directly effected by what they did beyond just losing her playground. Wonder what they'd say have to say. Probably nothing more than "its freedom of the press, honey bunch." Funny, I thought that freedom came with the goal and intent of exposing truths/education and knowledge to the masses. Guess for the Post....its more about freedom of the press to keep their advertisers and circulation on tactics no better than Jerry Springer. Perhaps worse, since Jerry has never denied what he and his show really is while this trash tries to sell itself as a quality newspaper. My family ran a publishing company and a newspaper for years. I saw first hand the WORK it takes to fact check and mantain your integrity as a journalist. Clearly this isn't important to these writers or editors. Also, as a person who was and friend's were directly effected in some more profound ways by Twilo's closing (job loss etc. etc.)....I'm appauled that they've found their new target. And that that target is now not just the club culture, but the gay culture. Perfect "dirt" ain't it? Those drug popping queers at it again eh? Pathetic and downright disgusting use of the power of the printed word. They should be ashamed. -Oo

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